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Life doesn’t care if your misery has a plot – but readers do

Will Boast’s Epilogue is hard to love

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

24 January 2015

9:00 AM

Epilogue Will Boast

Granta, pp.281, £12.99, ISBN: 9781847088208

Sometimes writers have to get a memoir out of their system before they can start on their great novel. Will Boast spent years trying to turn his life story into fiction, but eventually gave up and wrote an autobiography. In Epilogue, he describes how his mother died of brain cancer when he was in his first year of college; two years later, his younger brother Rory was killed in a car crash, then his father set about drinking himself to death.

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